RedLines To Native Drawing

RedLines to Native Drawing

As a part of continuous improvement in process and products industry layout and drawings should undergo revision at periodic interval. Hence all the AS BUILT drawings should be updated with change information is integral process in order to make work place as safe and efficient.

While carry out such modification drawing revision level also changed to next higher order with capturing the key information behind the revision level. Below is the common arena where in drawing information calls for revision.


1. Modification in the existing process, products


2. Change in power and control distribution arrangement


3. New addition and deletion of equipment and machines


4. Standard revisions


Continually managing drawing revisions can create cost savings and time efficiencies, which are often realised during the life of the operation (maintenance and operations) or the next project, when accurate records allow all parties to start with the right information and same understandings. It also encourages all team members to have confidence in all site drawings. Maintaining accurate drawing revisions is also a legislative requirement for some industries.

Outsourcing this task to EDS means, that our clients do not have to dedicate time or resources to this service, including resourcing suitable discipline specific personnel or the overheads for maintaining software updates. A EDS gives confidence to clients that we will do it right and our professionals have good understanding of field drawing interpretation. We ask our clients to provide red pen marking in the drawings by hand written mark-ups or through software redline mark-ups. Our team of professionals will integrate those changes with the existing drawings, change the revision level with key info behind the change and send back to client in CAD and PDF format as per client requirement. This updated info will support safe operation of equipment’s and provide best in class of response time to issues arising from day today operation of plant and equipment.

As value addition to customers, our quality professionals also validate the drawing info apart from red line correction. If any changes or suggestion on the drawing we will share our findings with client for their validation and decision making.

We request client to mark the info clear and legible. This helps us to understand the requirement in detail and deliver the info with right quality and time. While delivering hard copy of redlines, we request Client to share the base CAD file to incorporate the red line info to save cost in complete redraw of the circuits.